SHAILENDRA KUMAR SINGH Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) RAJ Mani Chauhan, J. Heard Shri Ashok Khare, Senior Advocate for the petitioner. Shri M. A. Qadeer appears for U. P. Public Service Commission. Learned Standing Counsel appears for State.

(2.) THE petitioner is aggrieved by the refusal of respondents to recommend/reshuffle his candidature against the vacant post of Sub Divisional Magistrate on the basis of his performance and position in the merit list of the U. P. Combined State Upper Subordinate Services Examination 1997.

(3.) IT is further stated that one Shri Suresh Kumar Vashishtha at serial No. 1 in the merit list got selected in the Indian Administrative Service and Shri Anurag Agrawal at serial No. 10 was selected in Indian Police Service in the Civil Service Examination of 1997. They did not join the post of Sub Divisional Magistrate. The petitioner as such moved a representation on 19. 9. 1998 before the-Secretary, Appointments, Lucknow for reshuffling the vacancies and to fill up the two vacant posts of Sub Divisional Magistrate. The petitioner again made a representation on 1. 2. 1999 after he came to know that Shri Anurag Agrawal had moved an application giving his unwillingness to join the post of Sub Divisional Magistrate.